| "Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." »Samuel Johnson |
| "There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty." »Epictetus |
| "Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease." »Nicolas Boileau |
| "Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile." »Sir Wilfred Grenfell |
| "If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| "I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure." »Lawana Blackwell |
| "The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine |
| "Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite." »William Blake |
| "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please." »Edmund Spenser |
| "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." »Helen Keller |
| "The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." »Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds." »Jeremy Taylor |
| "Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning." »Hesiod |
| "Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." »J. Willard Marriott |
| "I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar |
| "I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one." »Euripides |
| "Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects" »James Madison |
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